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"I learned that in extreme situations when human lives and dignity are at state, neutrality is a sin. It helps the killers, not the victims." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor who lost his family in the Holocaust - Nobel Prize Author

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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."–Norman Thomas

[Alavi] working with a front company known as Assa Corp., illegally funneled
millions in rental income to Iran's state-owned Bank Melli. Bank Melli
has been accused by a U.S. Treasury official of providing support for
Iran's nuclear program, and it is illegal in the United States to do
business with the bank

Bank Melli Iran is reported to have $48 billion in Shariah-compliant assets, with Iran holding more Islamic assets than all other countries. Iranian banks account for 6 of the top 10 Islamice Institutions worldwide.

In their amended complaint, U.S. prosecutors alleged Alavi has been
providing numerous services to Iran's government, including managing
the building, running a charitable organization for the Iranian
government and transferring funds from the building's management
company to Bank Melli.

While all of the properties under forfeiture may remain open as proceedings go forward, and no Iranian spokesman or mosque leader would speak of the action, neither would they open their doors:

At the Islamic Institute of New York, a mosque and school in Queens,
two U.S. marshals came to the door and rang the bell repeatedly. The
marshals taped a forfeiture notice to the window and left a large
document sitting on the ground. After they left a group of men came out
of the building and took the document.

Mosques are located in Queens, NY, and schools in Huston and Rockville, Maryland and an Islamic center in Carmichael, California. In Virginia, a 100-acre property.

This minute on FOX, Alavi is denying any part of their operation is owned by the Iranian government. While one earlier report said no action was taken today at the properties, FOX News' Eric Shawn just reported that boxes were removed from the Piaget Building today.

Assets are believed to total more than $500 million, with mosques, schools and Islamic centers in Maryland, California, Houston and New York, including a 36-story office building in New York, and more than 100 acres in Virginia.

The receipts from the Piaget Building funds mosques, Islamic Centers and schools.

Confiscating the properties would be a sharp blow against Iran, which
has been accused by the U.S. government of bankrolling terrorism and
trying to build a nuclear bomb.

The sleek, modern building, last valued at $570 million to $650 million
in 2007, has served as an important source of income for the foundation
over the past 36 years. The most recent tax records show the foundation
earned $4.5 million from rents in 2007.

Rents collected from the building help fund the centers and other
ventures, such as sending educational literature to imprisoned Muslims
in the U.S. The foundation has also invested in dozens of mosques
around the country and supported Iranian academics at prominent
universities.

If federal prosecutors seize the skyscraper, the Alavi Foundation would
have almost no way to continue supporting the Islamic centers, which
house schools and mosques. That could leave a major void in Shiite
communities, and hard feelings toward the FBI.

It's about time radical Islam has a problem with the FBI. The article says Alavi Foundation has been suspected of terrorist ties for THREE DECADES. This is not good news for the three young Americans held hostage in Iran for crossing the border from Iraq. Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal were charged this week with espionage and will be tried in Iran. We'll see if the Iranian mosques and schools become bargaining chips for the release of Shourd, Bauer and Fattal.

"One of the prettiest sounds on earth" is the Muslim call to prayer at sunset.

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